Draenai are the Eredar race and have hooves + tendrils and other weird stuff. They are space goats as you like to say. They use the holy light and arcane magic. They also have 5 fingers.
Protoss are sort of like a plant species. They have toes, and 3 fingers. They don’t have mouths since they feed from psionic energy and the sun. The protoss have psionic powers and were created by the Xel’Naga.
Very different lore and species. Not even closely related.
The Protoss fleet is a High Tech Fleet while the Draenei Ships are are Crystal Cathedrals.
The Draenei Cities look like Fantasy Cathedrals more than anything while the Protoss look like High Tech Empires that happen to be powered by floating crystals.
Protoss don’t have mouths, face-tentacles, facial hair, tails, nor hooves. Besides, they are from an entirely different universe not connected to Warcraft.
I look at the 3 franchises as separated by millions of years. Litllith, Sylvanas and Kerrigan are connected but unique having massive differences in time and circumstance.
I have too. There was also a cutscene or video once of Chromie showing us something and her fast forwarding and the image we were given is a cutscene from Starcraft 2 with her going “whoops too far”. Was that just a little easter egg or Blizzard subtly confirming the SC and WoW universes are indeed the same? Diablo is also linked because we have the Nephilim showing up in WoW before teleporting back.
I think, if nothing else, there were at least loose discussions or plans to make a combined universe.
Protoss don’t have mouth or horns anymore, I think their feet are just two rubbery toes on chicken legs?
Maybe in like 100000 years, just like ppl going into space will cease to be human and only maybe remain vageluey humanoid (without artificial gravity at least) so to could dreanei wind up being weird. I think they are losely cut of similar cloth, however not the “same”. Just two representations of something similar.